Company name Dragon Pharmaceuticals Inc. (USA)
Stock ticker DRUG
Live stock price [stckqut]DRUG[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Poor
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Poor
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Poor
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Poor
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $0.01
Target stock price (averages with growth) $0.01
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $0.08
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $0.47

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock.

This is a guest post written by David Lewis

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that managed mutual funds should not be long-term investment vehicles. Very few people are experiencing stellar results. DALBAR Inc. has gone on record to say that the average mutual fund return is less than the index it is made up of.

There is one reason that products are sold in the financial world, and that is to make money. It doesn’t matter what you buy: insurance, annuities, mutual funds, stocks, bonds, ETFs, or anything else. The only question is,

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Company name Volterra Semiconductor Corporation
Stock ticker VLTR
Live stock price [stckqut]VLTR[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $37.36
Target stock price (averages with growth) $1397.33
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $35.76
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $35.23

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock.

Dilbert.com

There are studies that have been done that show that many mutual funds cannot beat randomly choosing stocks (including throwing darts at a list of stocks). Most professionals that run a mutual fund don’t perform better than a standard index fund over the long term.

This is why I typically suggest that investors split their portfolio into 2 main groups. A portion of their income is invested in index funds and the other portion in great stocks like I show on the Watch List.

Don’t trust the ‘rat’ in Dilbert’s world – invest only in great companies. If you want to use a dart, print off the Watch List, put it on your wall, and throw darts to pick the ones to start your portfolio.

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Company name Lakeland Bancorp, Inc.
Stock ticker LBAI
Live stock price [stckqut]LBAI[/stckqut]
Confident Investor Rating Poor

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock. It is not possible to confidently invest in a company that is not currently profitable.